Born in Liverpool in 1934 and almost immediately placed in an orphanage, Thomas Gorton’s life has not been without its challenges. Now in retirement and living on the east coast of Yorkshire,... More > he gives us a frank account of this life.< Less

The Orphan Queen is an epic fantasy and romance from Incarnate series author Jodi Meadows. The Huffington Post ranked it as one of the top YA books of 2015. The novel's protagonist is Wilhelmina, who... More > is the lost princess of Aecor, which was conquered and absorbed into the Indigo empire.
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Clarence Edward Mulford (3 February 1883 – 10 May 1956) was the creator of the character Hopalong Cassidy and who wrote many works of fiction and nonfiction.Mulford was born in Streator, Illinois.
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THE ORPHAN is the story of twenty-one year-old Claude Coltan, a college student and scholarship swimmer who finds a new world on the other side of the tracks and spends a year trying to make sense of... More > himself and the universe. Through sex, drugs, rock and roll, childhood memories, personal tragedies, philosophy textbooks, friendship and love, he explores the problem of how we go about discovering who we are. More than anything, it’s a story about creating our own identities in a world we can’t possibly understand, and like the tale of Camelot, it’s finally as hopeful as it is tragic.< Less

Over 14,000 children comprised the exodus of unaccompanied minors from Cuba soon after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. I was one of those children, I was one of the youngest at age 6. This is my true... More > story, as told through the eyes of a child.
The story is described chronologically, starting with our affluent life in Havana, then upon being exiled, how I wound up at a cloistered convent for orphans where physical abuse was as much a part of the rituals as praying. When authorities closed the convent I was adopted by a large family for many laborious years until my parents escaped from Cuba. Though reunited at last, painfully difficult years followed as we attempted in vain to become a family once again. The many years of separation from my parents and abuse forged the basis for a life of both abandonment and success.< Less

Cindy and Norene find themselves traveling from Michigan to California trying to solve a murder that has been unsolved for a dozen years. They get themselves involved with an oil well company, an... More > orphanage and small town gossip. They decide to hire a private investigating company to help them, and it turns out to be one of the smartest decisions the ladies could have made.< Less

The author relates fond memories of growing up in Buckner Orphans Home in Dallas, Texas, before her adoption at age eighteen. She tells her story in a humorous yet touching manner that transports... More > the reader to the simpler times of the post World War II era.< Less

The author relates fond memories of growing up in Buckner Orphans Home in Dallas, Texas, before her adoption at age eighteen. She tells her story in a humorous yet touching manner that transports the... More > reader to the simpler times of the post World War II era.< Less

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